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March 20, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Episode 36, March 20, 2024 – Todd Pitner and Mike Adams cover the best revelations (so far)...
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Alright, welcome to a special episode of Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And as you know, it was, I don't know, a year ago or something that I started a new show with my co-host Todd Pitner called Decentralized.tv.
And that show has been very popular.
We've published something like 30-something episodes and a lot more coming.
And today I thought I would bring on Todd to talk about sort of what we've observed during this time, where we are, some of the big breaking news in crypto and privacy and decentralization, food forests, all kinds of things.
So, Todd, welcome to the show today.
It's just you and I today, buddy.
We get to talk just you and I. I love it.
I love it.
I miss that.
You know, I remember the days where you and I spent hours on the phone during a couple of week period of time to where we were talking about launching the show and just kind of wargaming it out.
And those were great times.
So this is a pleasure to me.
I'd be happy to have a guest, but, you know, we will do just fine.
Well, we have a guest.
We have DTV man over here.
Yes, we do.
But he doesn't talk much.
Well, you know, would you?
If Rhodey...
Yeah, he's afraid to open his mouth because Rhodey might get him.
He is still intact.
Rhodey took his arm last time, but he's...
We have rebuilt him.
He's a $6 million man at this point.
I need to change his wardrobe, though.
Maybe we'll do that for the next show.
I want to change up the whole look, the whole vibe of what GTV Man is all about here.
Dress him up like a Lebanon freedom fighter or something, like Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is in the house.
Oh my God.
Something like that.
Just to freak people out.
That'll be popular.
I wonder what Rhodey would do.
He's like, what?
Hezbollah?
Did you say the H word?
No.
Okay.
That's just a joke, folks.
Don't get your panties in a bunch.
We're going to talk today.
We're going to start talking about Some of the big highlights.
Now, Todd, you and I have interviewed an amazing array of guests on this show from, you know, Robert Kiyosaki and David Morgan and John Perez and all kinds of amazing people.
And, you know, the CEO of Miles Franklin as well, right, Andy?
Yeah, absolutely.
So many amazing people.
We've covered food forests, you know, we've covered like energy harvesting plant growth technology systems that are pretty exotic.
We've covered multiple cryptocurrency projects and startups and all kinds of things.
What is your big takeaway so far from what we've done together on this show?
Great question.
My biggest takeaway is that there is a desperate need out there from others For a show like ours that is out of the norm in that we provide solutions or potential solutions to issues that are out there, right?
I mean, if you take a look at most of the people who we interviewed, they're all, you know, entrepreneurial spirited people who at some point in time there was a problem and they, you know, looked in the mirror and they said, you know, problem meets solution, right?
And everybody, I encourage you to go back.
And as you say so often, Mike, our shows are timeless.
People could go back and literally binge watch each show.
And if you watch a show that was our fourth one with Jim Gill regarding food for us, it's applicable today.
Absolutely.
None of these have expired.
None.
Nor will they.
And I think that that's the power of this show.
I've also had people to where we will do an interview, Mike, and with World War III happening and your prolific content creation, it's not always easy to get to the edits that quickly.
So there are times when we've interviewed somebody, but the actual show publishes maybe four weeks later or five weeks later or whatever, right?
In my mind, because we've already talked to so many new people during that time, I forget.
You know?
I forget what we talked about and who we talked to.
Not really, but you know, it's not top of mind.
It's not like I have the recall of, oh yeah, we spoke to him yesterday.
And so I get feedback from people that there are certain aspects of certain interviews that really impacted them.
And it's kind of odd.
It's kind of joyously weird, I should say, for me to kind of have a fresh perspective of thinking, wow.
We talked about that?
We said that?
You're right.
It makes me want to go back and listen to it again.
Well, some of it has been quite prophetic, actually.
We talked about Bitcoin ETFs, and we talked about what was going to happen to privacy coins being pushed off of centralized exchanges.
I think we called it on a lot of these things.
But I would add, the number one thing that I'm struck by in what we've done here together, Todd, is that We're living in a world where it is increasingly recognized by most thinking people that the Western governments of the world, the governments of European countries, you know, the Netherlands and the UK and the US and Canada, the governments are at war with their own people now.
Yes.
Like in the Netherlands, they're at war with the farms.
I mean, farmers are protesting in France and in the UK and in Poland at this point and in Spain and in Germany.
The governments are at war with the people in so many ways, and yet the people...
They organically create solutions that make government centralized systems obsolete.
I mean, think about one of the best examples is, of course, cryptocurrency.
Yes.
We don't need, I think, seriously, we're at the point in this world, we don't need central bank currencies any longer.
No.
We could run the world, we could run all the economies, we could run all the transactions online.
On cryptocurrency, whether you believe in private or public, you know, Bitcoin versus others.
But do you realize that that system would be so much more honest because it can't be counterfeited by any government and it would promote peace because what is it that's funding the wars right now?
It's the money printing.
It's the dishonest ledgers of the Western governments.
Printing money, handing it out to countries to drop more bombs and kill more people and throw more soldiers at the front lines.
And it's we, the people, have already solved that problem.
And it's like, as the government currencies collapse, which is happening, guess what?
The solution's already here.
Right, right.
But that's my reaction, is that human civilization can move past the era of government centralization and, frankly, government terrorism against the people.
Yeah, but you know what I'm finding, Mike?
With my DecentralizedDirectory.com and the help that I'm providing with helping people keep more of what they earn through some very, very profound tax strategies, is that there are so many people, Mike, who still operate out of that fear of the government and They just can't break out of the control grid, right?
They still get their downloads for mainstream TV. So the people, you, if you're watching this right now, I guarantee you are light years ahead of thy neighbor.
But Mike, I don't know how we break through further.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
Yeah, actually I do.
Let me bring in some perspective here.
I was just recording this in my podcast the other day, how much we're winning the information war.
When I was talking about, for example, the dangers of vaccines in 2007, That was considered crazy fringe talk.
You can't say anything about vaccines.
Vaccines cured polio.
Vaccines are awesome.
Today, in the post-COVID era, are you kidding me?
70-80% of the people don't trust vaccines any longer.
Think about central banks.
Back in the 1990s, you know, when Ron Paul was a congressman, and Ron Paul was saying things like, you know, the Federal Reserve is not part of the federal government, and we should audit the Fed, and, you know, where's the gold?
And everybody's like, Ron Paul's a crazy nut, you know, at that time.
Today, I mean, everybody who holds Bitcoin is basically, they understand the philosophies of Ron Paul, if not Austrian economics, right?
Yeah.
We've won that war.
We won the war about what is honest money.
Everybody knows it's not the dollar.
It's not the euro.
It's not the yen.
It can't be a government run printable counterfeitable currency.
That's been one Todd.
Yeah.
I think that the way things are going to shift is really, it's not that you and I have to like twist people's arms, like come believe this thing.
No, it's like, Just wait.
Your systems are collapsing.
And when they collapse, you want a solution?
Come talk to us.
Okay.
Or you think it's organically going to happen.
Yes, I do.
It's not if, it's when.
It's happening now.
Okay.
Okay.
That's great.
That's great.
Because I was listening to, I can't remember which podcast it was, but somebody was talking.
Maybe it was yours.
Yeah.
Somebody was talking about how, I don't think it was though, was how Americans just need to say no to paying their taxes.
And by saying no, they can't lock us all up and all of that.
And you know, that sounds good.
It's a really nice soundbite.
Mike, but that's going to lead lots of people into lots of trouble.
And I personally don't support that strategy.
But I also do not support what our non-government, because I really don't think that we have a real government installed.
You know, it pains me to think that they are using any of our tax dollars for any of the nonsense that they are using it for.
And so I'm all for the solutions of how do we not evade obligations, but how do we avoid handing over our hard-earned dollars for them to basically, at their discretion, spend on everything that is counterintuitive to the success of our nation.
Well, right.
I mean, look at where they're sending the money now, like $95 billion passed by the Senate, $60 billion to Ukraine, I think is like $15 or $20 billion to Israel, $5 billion for Taiwan or that region.
How many billions for our border, though?
Zero.
Big fat zero right there.
Yeah, nothing for America.
Wow.
And people are seeing that now, right?
I mean, like never before.
Even the whole border crisis situation, it's no longer a fringe theory.
It's not like, oh, you're making it up.
It's a conspiracy.
No.
They're flooding in at 5,000 to 10,000 a day.
This is a straight-up invasion.
People see that now.
But talking about solutions, though, I have seen such incredible efforts in the realm of decentralization.
Thank goodness.
There's a lot of decentralized tech.
That is happening now.
We've interviewed the founders of Bastion and Cordell.
We've interviewed the founders of Particle, although that episode hasn't run yet, but that's next.
And some other projects as well that are coming out.
And, as you know, one of the projects I'm working on is this large language model AI project.
And that didn't exist when we started this show.
No, it didn't.
Was it even a germ of an idea?
Or did that all manifest post...
It turns out 2023 was the year that AI, natural language processing, exploded and took a quantum leap that was really unanticipated, even by machine learning experts.
So 2023 was a really pivotal year.
And now in 24 and 25 and beyond, we're going to see this explosion of AI agents, as they're called, which will run your computer.
They will do tasks for you.
They will interact with your bank, which could be scary depending on who's in control.
They will interact with your email.
They will do research for you.
They will draw up charts and reports and everything.
And I was...
In fact, this morning I was talking to one of my devs who's handling all the fine-tuning training of this LLM, and I had sent him over a pretty big data set.
That was like 200,000 rows for training, rows of data that was from articles that I had written, and got back the language model, and I was querying it about some of the stuff I had written about, and it was like, it was talking to me like me.
Wow.
And it was like, wow, like we really, this is really working.
You nailed it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we got permission from a lot of people, like Dr.
Robert Malone gave us permission to use his books for training the model.
Dr.
Edward Gru, David Morgan, you know, the silver guru that we interviewed.
We have downloaded every David Morgan video from YouTube and Rumble and Brighton, and it's in a transcription engine right now that we're running locally.
That's going to be used to train the model.
By the way, every interview that you and I have ever done on this show is also going into the model, which means that this model will be able to answer questions like a chatbot as an expert in crypto.
Nice.
Privacy, currency, and money.
I mean, nothing like that exists out there, no?
No, it doesn't.
It doesn't.
God bless you, Mike.
It's going to be a blast, let me tell you.
Yeah, the vision that you have, and I love that you can operate it locally.
Oh, yeah.
I think people have to really pay attention to that.
Would you mind explaining that to people who may not kind of be in the know on the tech?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thanks.
We're going to be releasing starting end of March, but then I think once each month we're going to release a new open-source downloadable Large language model that you can just download and then run it locally.
And you'll use software like LM Studio to run it locally.
You can run it on Mac or Windows or Linux.
And it's a chatbot.
So you'll be able to chat with it.
But the thing is, it's being enhanced with knowledge from our space, which is, I would argue, is reality-based information.
Yes.
Information about the real world.
All the models that are out there are trained based on delusional information.
You know, fake reality.
Yeah, that's right.
Like men can have babies and, you know, carbon dioxide is bad for plants and whatever, all this nonsense.
Our model will be the only model that I'm aware of that will have incredible knowledge of nutrition and natural health and permaculture, food forestry.
Also, like David Morgan's information, like we mentioned, phytochemicals, off-grid medicine, off-grid living, how to do medicinal extracts.
You just chat with it.
So you just type it in.
Like, okay, I grew, I don't know, rosemary herbs, and now I want to extract...
You know, medicine from rosemary herbs, how do I do that?
You just type it in, and it will answer you.
Or you can tell, like, give me top 10 steps for, you know, making medicine out of rosemary herb, and it'll tell you.
Amazing.
It's a game changer.
Yeah, yeah.
By the way, regarding permaculture, there's somebody I follow on YouTube, and you likely know him.
You probably interviewed him.
But are you aware of David the Good?
Oh, I've heard of David the Good, but I've not interviewed him.
Oh, my gosh.
With your language model, you need to get his permission to download every one of his videos.
He is stunning.
He's my go-to for learning anything.
You just have to research him.
That's awesome.
And please have your producers connect with him.
I'd love for us to interview him.
Yeah, maybe we can invite him on the show.
That would be great.
That would be great.
You've had a lot of great suggestions.
Thank you.
And I know that he would be totally open for you using his content.
Okay.
Because it is so go-to for me, and there's nothing that he...
Hasn't done or doesn't know or hasn't written about, and he's a published author, many, many books.
I think he would be perfect as an add-on for your model.
Okay, that's great.
Is he just by himself, or are there three?
Is there David the Good, David the Bad, and David the Ugly, or is it just David the Good?
It's David the Good, and that's a question we'll save for the interview as to what is David the Good.
How did you come up with this moniker?
It's really cool.
Okay, we always have fun with people's names, including our own.
All right, so that's great.
And by the way, I always appreciate your suggestions for guests.
I think some of the best guests we've had on are ones that you've recommended, by the way.
Thank you.
Even a blind squirrel, you know that cliche.
No, you know what you're doing.
What I really appreciate about you, Todd, in fact, I want you to talk about what you did with Epic Cash over the last year.
Because one of the things I really appreciate about you getting to know you more...
You're a can-do guy.
I mean, you have a very can-do attitude.
You're persistent.
You're a good communicator.
You're enthusiastic.
And I know, I mean, I'm not going to share the details publicly, but behind the scenes, you have been dealt some real...
Storm type of stuff has been thrown at you that's completely unfair and unfounded.
And you have not let that drag you down.
You've actually, I think you've revolutionized it.
Dare I say, I think you've saved Epic Cash.
I mean, that's my opinion.
In process, yeah.
And it's not just you.
I mean, there's a lot of great people.
I know, like, we've interviewed yoga and so on.
But I think without you, that project would have died like eight months ago.
Yeah, I don't know.
Thank you, by the way.
The tech is the tech, and it will always be the tech, and it's really, really solid tech.
So that's what I love about Epic Cash.
However, well, you know, just so people have some context, I knew nothing about crypto like four plus years ago.
And I decided when I received a bonus check to actually, somebody told me that I needed to invest in XRP. And I had no idea what XRP was.
And they're like, it's cryptocurrency.
And I'm like, I know nothing about it.
But I was at the point in time in my life, and I've always been a curious person.
I'm like, You know, maybe I can figure this thing out.
This might not be just for the youngins.
And so I launched a YouTube channel that was really dedicated to crypto newbies.
And it was just all about following my journey as somebody that didn't know how to get fiat from my bank onto an exchange into crypto.
I would talk about that every week, and then it just started gaining momentum, and people seemed to really like it, and it caught the attention of some influencers out there.
Then, all of a sudden, I'm like, you know what?
I'm realizing there are a lot of coins out there.
There are a lot of tokens.
There are a lot of projects that are going to do and create a lot of harm for people.
Those of us who are gullible or haven't been in crypto since 2010, we are at risk.
So I wanted to launch a series on my channel which was about Bitcoin trials.
So I spoke to the universe that if any leader of a project wanted to come on my show and talk about their project, They could do that.
I would give them the platform.
But here's the deal.
I am judge and juror, and I'm going to declare you a shitcoin at the beginning of the interview, and you have 45 minutes to convince me otherwise.
Great format.
And that's what I did.
And I had probably about four projects on.
And, you know, like with our show, Mike, I'm not out there to be a sniper or to harm anybody.
And so, you know, I asked good, solid questions, but I wasn't out there to really declare someone a coin.
It was kind of a shtick to be able to give people an opportunity to come just educate us all.
And then this guy, his name was Max Freeman, he reached out to me and said, hey, I'm the founder of Epic Cash, I would like to come on your show.
And I said, fine, I declare you a Bitcoin.
And there's an interview out there that if people search Uncle Vigilante Epic Cash...
You can watch this.
What actually happened?
I had him come on and explain and begin.
I had a white wig on and a gavel, and I was just in role.
In fun, I'm declaring it a Bitcoin.
Epicash Bitcoin.
And this guy, Max, he ended up, within 15 minutes, I've never heard anyone speak like him, ever, even to this day.
I mean, he was so...
I was gifted in his articulation and so educational and I felt authentic and everything.
It was like I learned more in the first 15 minutes than I had the entire five months prior to when I started covering crypto.
So at the 15-minute mark, and you'll see it in the interview, I took up my wig, I threw down my gavel, I went back, I went into the role of me, and I'm like, took my notes, and I started taking notes, and the interview lasted two hours.
And it was just amazing.
And there was so much learning in there.
I invited him on the next week, and he gave me the time.
But imagine how much you know now.
That you didn't even know then, because that was probably the first time you heard about MemoWimble, for example.
Oh, yeah.
I knew nothing about it.
I thought it was a cartoon character of some sort.
But now you have such a vast knowledge of different kinds of blockchains, different kinds of privacy, like asynchronous transactions versus...
That's right.
Well, you know what MemoWimble requires versus other types of blockchains.
In retrospect, what do you now realize that maybe you didn't know then?
It's a great question.
There's so many positive attributes to Epic Cash, so just focusing on that, because that literally was the three years of my life that I invested in it, to where I was becoming very much a subject matter expert in it.
And along the way, in becoming an expert in it, I had to learn about all of the other Competitive coins, I would say, whether it's Bitcoin, you know, not even other cryptos, but comparing, you know, what is perfect money?
If you think about that, what would be perfect money for the world to operate on and superior money?
Like non-confiscability, non-counterfeitability, divisibility, yeah, all these things.
You need to compare different assets, not just digital assets, but you need to compare private crypto to public crypto, like BTC, to gold, to Federal Reserve notes, to CBDCs.
All of these we need to become educated on, because if not, then we're all going to be left holding the proverbial bag when it's the fan, and it's not if it's when.
Right.
Okay, you're intriguing me about...
I've got to say this.
Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin is still king.
And Bitcoin, I think, just crossed $50,000 a coin again, so it's recovering.
And the ETFs have been approved by the SEC. And even, what's her name, Pocahontas?
Senator Elizabeth Warren?
Yeah, Elizabeth Warren.
She came out and she flew like the Bitcoin flag.
Now, to honor, I think it's like the 15th anniversary of Satoshi, or maybe I'm wrong, I think that's it.
I mean, are you kidding me that she is now honoring Bitcoin?
Let me tell you, Bitcoin has won, but you and I know, and by the way, we're happy about that.
Like we're happy that people are seeing the utility of Bitcoin.
But you and I know, Todd, Bitcoin is not the best technology.
It's not even close.
No.
In fact, you know, like Monero being the most popular privacy coin.
Yeah.
You and I know we're fans of Monero.
But Monero is also not the best privacy tech that exists out there.
Oh.
Right.
So it's not even the best tech that has won.
Exactly.
That has become the most popular.
They're the first to market who were good at one thing, you know?
Being able to buy things on the dark web and not get caught.
I mean, buying other things too, but really that was the primary use case.
But not anymore.
You're just talking like early days.
Early days, that was the primary use case for it, but that's how it became as large as it did.
And it opened up the eyes, all of our eyes, to the importance of private crypto, of private transaction, of being able to move value privately.
Move value privately.
MVP is a very, very important notion here.
But Bitcoin is winning, Mike, because of one thing.
The Druid Babylonian bastards now have their fingers in it, and fractional reserve and rehypothecation and everything that is happening with the Federal Reserve Banks is going to happen within Bitcoin.
And so it's no surprise to me that it's winning.
It's going to win and continue to win until...
The point in time to where everybody has exercised their entire bag of FOMO and are in it, and then, boom, the Druids are going to come back and they're going to just take the chips off the table.
So you think it's a rug pull?
I think it's an absolute rug pull.
And that's why I encourage people to, you know, don't just follow people off the cliff.
Now is the time, I think, that we all have to double down and we have to refocus on private crypto and private technology.
And self-custody.
And self-custody.
Everything that comes along with that, 100%, Mike.
I had somebody reach out to me today through my website saying that they wanted to book an hour with me.
And as you know, booking an hour with me is $500, Mike.
And I dissuaded him.
I said, sir, as much as I would love to...
Because what he wanted me to do is teach him how to do crypto.
That was his word.
I need you to teach me how to do crypto.
And I'm not going to take any...
There's free videos on YouTube.
That's what I told him.
I just said, look, I learned...
A hard lesson early on is that I want to dissuade you as much as I would love to be able to have that booked hour.
It's impossible to teach somebody crypto within an hour.
I said, but let me do this.
If there's anything that you have specifically questions on, I can point you in the right direction and happy to do so gratis.
But Mike, it is like...
Crypto is such a rabbit hole, right?
But we have to now double and triple down on being able to identify how are we going to, around the corner very, very soon, how are we going to engage with each other financially outside of the system?
If we don't really get serious about that, then we're all going to be inside the system.
It's going to be the CBDCs.
It's going to be the Corporate Transparency Act.
I'm sure, Mike, you've gotten all of the letters from your accountants and everything having to do with every one of your business that this Corporate Transparency Act is...
It's basically going to turn your business into Bitcoin.
It's going to be entirely surveilled, everything.
So how do you extract yourself from that?
There are strategies, but we have to double and triple down on it, Mike.
And so that's where I am right now.
I still believe, specific just to kind of wrap up Epic Cash, is there were a lot of things that happened mid-May of last year, so we're about nine months past.
Post, you know, train wreck that was, you know, it's like as good as the tech is, you know, there was an issue with leadership.
That issue is now cured, you know, but the project has been harmed in a big way just from a price action standpoint, if you will.
But yesterday, I called the bottom.
I called the bottom of Epic Cash because I am seeing so many people, the people whom I respect, Mike, we talked about this before the show.
I'm launching a new channel or a show on my YouTube channel, which people can find.
If you just search Uncle Vigilante, it'll pop up.
Or Decentralized Directory, it'll pop up.
But if you subscribe to it, you will see that the new series that I'm focused on, like three and a half years ago, I was focused on crypto for newbies, right?
Now I'm focused on anybody out there.
who is leading with their chin who's trying to advance the ball so to speak with regards to decentralization Privacy, cryptocurrencies, any other strategies, goldbacks, Mike, I'd love to have you on to talk about your goldbacks, those type things.
It's decentralized.tv, but different.
I want to open it up to the people who are the ones behind the scenes.
The builders.
You know?
The builders.
There's several people I know within the Epic Cash community that are just not happy with the Epic Cash website.
It's like broken in certain areas and nobody seems to be rallying to be able to fix it.
So what did they do?
They're launching their own.
And I'm getting these requests to be able to edit the website or post a testimonial and I'm happy to do it.
But what hit me this last week, Mike, is...
This is what it's all about.
These are the people.
These are the people who I want to give the platform to.
So I'm launching the show and it's called Lead With Your Chin.
I like it.
I like the name.
And it goes back to my dad.
He gave me two truisms when I was younger.
He always said, lead with your chin versus your handout.
Meaning, don't go to people, don't go to your boss, don't go to your neighbor, whomever, and say, hey...
What's in it for me?
Let's talk about that first before I actually lean in and do something for you.
And I've done this my entire life, Mike, where it's like, hey man, I'll bet on myself.
I'll go earn the commissions.
Sure, I'll take that package.
No problem.
You're not afraid to work.
No, not at all.
But, and we all know those people out there who withhold their services until you come to the table.
So, I love the people who aren't saying within Epic Cash is, well, let's raise $5,000 and maybe we can get somebody to fix this.
They're like, hell nah!
I just secured this URL, and I'm going to build it myself.
And I've got two different people who've done that, and both of the sites are freaking awesome.
See, I like that approach, because I'm a doer also, as you know very well.
Yes, you are.
It's like, just jump in and get it done, man.
I hate waiting on committees.
I've been invited to be on so many boards of directors for different organizations.
I'm like, no.
First of all, you don't want me on because the first thing I'm going to say is this whole thing is stupid.
You need to have one person who knows what they're doing and an executive commander.
Get that done.
That's how you build things.
That's how I move fast.
That's how you get things done, Todd.
Or people are volunteering and saying, I'm just going to do that.
Just jump in.
Like you say, lead with your chin.
No, the bookend to what my dad said was, do more than most, better than most, in a shorter period of time than most, and you'll be fine.
And so those are the kind of people.
So I'm just, I'm in love with the people who, from my DMs, who are really wanting to make a difference, specifically within Epic Cash.
And so I thought, you know what?
There was the meltdown that was based on, you know, lack of leadership.
But we're through that.
That person is out.
And so I called the bottom because I'm like, you know what, I know myself, Mike.
And I'm going to start focusing back on this wonderful project.
The tech is still as wonderful as I ever thought it was.
It's just going to be with a different lineup of contributors.
Uh-huh.
And I want to give people the audience.
And I think it's going to be infectious.
I think people are going to really, really dig, you know, kind of the...
What's the word I'm looking for?
They're going to dig the vibe, if you will.
I think people will be attracted to it because they'll want to come get a dose of positive energy.
Enthusiasm is infectious.
Enthusiasm and solutions, Mike.
And you know what?
I can't wait for the day that somebody comes on my show that has something 80% of the way done, and they talk about it, and then out of the woodwork comes a couple people who say, hey, I'd like to help you with that 20%.
You know, we can do this.
And 1 plus 1 equals 11, Mike.
That's the vibe I want to get.
I've experienced the same thing with this AI project.
One day on my podcast, I said, if you're listening to this, if you can contribute to this in any way, reach out to us.
I gave an email address.
We have had the most amazing people.
We have this AI company, actually a really leading firm out of Germany.
They're sending me science papers a couple times a week that are the most advanced techniques for fine-tuning training.
I was contacted by a gal out of Australia that wants to run our quality control team for doing the quality checks of the queries.
Oh, amazing.
And we had like 50 people contribute big repositories of content, including one guy that brought in a link to like 12,000 public domain books on prepping and something.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
It was like, wow, all I did was ask.
And you know what?
All they did...
Was lead with their chance.
Exactly.
You know what?
They didn't come to you, I don't think.
First time we've talked about this, but I don't believe that they came to you saying, you know what?
I could do this for you, but let's talk transactional right now.
Right?
No, that was not the first conversation.
But, I mean, for some of these people, if they're going to keep working for us, we will compensate them.
But, yeah, that wasn't the initial...
No, no.
They just wanted to lean in, right?
Lean in, make a difference, make a positive difference.
And those are the people that are going to save not just this country, but this world, you know?
Yeah.
And here's something else funny.
You'll appreciate this, Todd.
I was talking to another kind of prominent publisher in the alt-medicine space the other day.
About this project, and he said, Mike, what's your revenue model for this whole thing?
You're giving away the language model for free.
How are you going to make money off this?
And I said, I have no idea.
Actually, I don't know.
I have faith that this is important.
I feel in my gut that this is really important to do.
I have no idea how to commercialize this thing.
Maybe it's never commercial.
Really?
Mike in a nutshell.
I mean, that's leading with your chin.
It's just like, I don't, you don't need it, but I really do want to say from the bottom of my heart, I'm proud of you, man.
It's just, yes, you are.
You are just an amazing human being and exemplify what this world needs right now.
Your leadership, everything about you.
And that's why people love your show so much, why they migrate to this one, is it's just you have...
I don't know.
If there's going to be a poster child for lead with your chin, I think your chin is going to be the one that's bronzed.
Well, I mean, thank you for those comments.
That means a lot to hear that from you.
But I think you and I have kind of the same thing going on here.
Like, you understand that private crypto done right is a game changer for the future of human society.
And you're putting your focus on Epic Cash, which is very innovative technology.
And with the right people and the right energy, it can go...
There's no limits to where it can go.
I feel the same way about large language models.
It's a leap of faith, man.
It's like, I don't know how this is going to be used, but I know that I feel called to do this and to put this into the public space.
It's going to change the infrastructure of decentralized human knowledge.
The benefits of that are probably impossible for me to fully understand right now.
Yeah.
Well, you know what you're propagating out there, if you think about this?
You're propagating truth, because what you are going to provide is truthful knowledge, right?
It's not the manufactured bullshit knowledge from clown world, right?
Right.
That men can have babies and that kind of nonsense.
Right?
Yours is going to be founded in truth.
And at the end, it may take a while, but the truth does win.
Because deceit lies...
They will fail in time.
They will create a lot of harm in the process, but they will fail in time.
The truth always wins.
The good, the beautiful, and true always wins at the end of the day.
So by just focusing on that, and then people are going to become addicted to the truth.
It's like being able to take your...
Large language model and be able to put it locally on my computer and query it so that I'm not, you know, so that Google isn't going to spy on my queries and then all of a sudden start advertising or selling my name to other people.
You know, I thought you were going to joke that what's your business model?
How are you going to monetize this?
I think I'm just going to wait for Google to buy me for $10 billion.
Oh my gosh, no.
That would never happen.
That's a big no.
No, I believe that if they did come at you and they offered you something that was like too good to be true numbers, I believe with all my heart you would say no.
Just without it.
Well, you're absolutely correct because I've said this before.
What's the point of having a lot of money in a world that's not free?
You know what I mean?
That's good.
I mean, if you walk around with a billion digital dollars of fiat currency in the bank, I mean, that could vanish tomorrow anyway.
It could.
And guess what you're still going to be doing if you have those 10 billion digital dollars?
Exact same thing.
You're still going to be feeding your goats.
I'm going to be cleaning out the chicken house on the weekends.
Nothing's going to change.
But what we need is to promote a world of freedom, which is what this show is all about.
I want to live in a world that's free.
I want to live in a world where the people around me have the opportunity to become wealthy and abundant.
You don't want to be like the one rich person surrounded by poverty and desperation.
That is not a good...
I understand that's probably like the Bill Gates version of the world.
That's not my version.
My version of the world is everybody can be wealthy.
They can keep what they earn, which is what your service is about, by the way, at Decentralized Directory.
Where we're not being looted because of money printing, where we have our privacy intact, where we have our civil liberties intact, we have the right to speak our mind, even if people don't agree with it.
This is what matters to me.
And frankly, accomplishing that is not about writing checks.
It's about, I think a lot of it is about embracing and empowering people with the technology that we talk about on this show.
Amen.
And it's being able to give people a platform to come talk about their own visions, right?
And whether it's Jim Gale with Food Forest Abundance or just any of these amazing guests that we've had.
And then in my little microcosm...
Ruin with Vero.
Ruin with Vero.
And then my microcosm of my vision of Lead With Your Chin are, you know, people who...
Maybe they just lack confidence, but what they know is they have true grit.
They have the grit to be able to go out and work and try to advance the ball downfield.
And I love those people.
It's like in football, and I know you're not a football fan, but you have your marquee players like Tom Brady and stuff.
But at the end of the day, what wins those games, other than the officials putting their thumb on the scale...
Kansas City Chiefs.
I had to insert that.
But at the end of the day, what wins are the Jimmy's and Joe's inside, right?
On the front lines.
It's those people that if they don't do their job, I don't care how good your quarterback's going to be, they're going to be on their butt, right?
So it's those Jimmy's and Joe's that I hope...
We impact in a positive way.
And I'm just putting out into the universe, folks, if you want to reach me, come to decentralizeddirectory.com and put in a query to me.
Just send me a message through there.
If you would like to come on my show to be able to talk about anything that you think is advancing freedom, I don't care what it is.
It doesn't have to be about private crypto or epic cash or whatever.
I hope it's not.
I hope I get some inquiries saying, hey, I'd like to come talk about this.
That I go, wow, I didn't know that existed.
Yeah, we welcome all kinds of different topics in the philosophy of decentralization.
Yes, yes.
And the other thing that I'm going to challenge the people who are watching this, there are many of you who may watch it for your own entertainment value, which is great.
That's what we're here for.
But you can make your contribution by letting other people know that we exist.
You know, it's simple.
Just reach out to your operating reality and send some links to some shows that may have been important to you.
Send a show to this specific, or a link to this specific show.
I don't know.
Let me show the screen here, decentralized.tv.
This is where people can go.
Oh, and these are some of the shows that we've done.
By the way, I put this up here.
Did you by chance watch my interview with Farsim?
Oh, it was amazing.
I'm like three-quarters of the way through it.
That guy, and he's willing to come back, but the founder of Holospace, he gets it, man.
Yes.
And you realize that within 15 minutes of the interview.
Oh, yeah.
There's no question.
But I've known Farson for years.
Really?
Yeah.
Years ago, he didn't want to come on and do any interviews.
Wow.
He was just behind the scenes, like, okay, he would sort of mentor me on some breaking tech, because he goes to all the shows, like all the conferences, and he attends all the meetings and all the breakout groups and everything, and he's getting cutting-edge tech knowledge, and he's been feeding it to me.
I think he's really influenced my knowledge base on this.
But it's guys like that that I really love to have on.
Right, right.
And we'll have him back with you as well.
I would love that.
I would love that.
I would look forward to that.
So next Thursday?
I don't think it's going to be next Thursday, but it's going to happen.
But it's just the example.
I mean, you were mentioning decentralized.tv is the website.
I also want to plug your site, decentralizeddirectory.com, which is your standalone site, by the way.
That's not our site.
That's your thing, and people can do consultations with you.
You already said 500 an hour.
You must have talked to some interesting people.
I've talked to some interesting people, but I've also, and I'll just let the cat out of the bag, you know, there have been people who have sent me different queries who, if people Are very specific of what they need and if they're interested in the tax advantage strategy, that's where I know that I can provide great value to where their ROI on an hour is immense.
It's like just silly immense.
But didn't you help one guy rescue an entire lost wallet?
Yeah, $120,000 of Bitcoin.
Yes.
That's the best $500 he ever spent.
Yeah, and it was great.
He sent me the $500 initially, and he was one of these guys, yeah, you know, I don't know.
I mean, it's whenever we get around to it, you know, have a nice holiday, come back after the New Year's, and let's, you know, and we did.
And, man, he did.
Yes, it was a great story, but we were able to confirm that the BTC that he had was not blacklisted, and it was his.
And so we worked on the most important phase of that, Mike, was what?
Getting it into self-custody.
Yes, exactly.
So we succeeded in doing that, and now the guy has in his own, you know, Cold storage wallet.
What now, that was $120,000 then, what's now probably closer to $180,000.
Yeah, exactly.
It's gone up considerably.
And so good for him.
But yeah, it's...
I have sent people comp links to where, based upon what they're looking for, I'm trying to help people.
I put in the dollar amount, Mike, as you know, because I was getting people who were just, you know, booking time with me and wasting my time.
They wouldn't show up for the Zoom calls.
So finally, I needed to do something about that.
So if anybody wants to Message me.
Go to decentralizeddirectory.com.
Send me a message.
If you want to talk about something and you don't want, here I am selling against myself, right, Mike?
You know, don't book an hour with me.
Look, let's just have a conversation, you know, by email first.
Let me know what you're looking for, what you're looking to accomplish.
And if I can help, if I believe that it is worth your investment, I'll tell you.
If not, I'll do everything in my power by email to be able to point you in the right direction.
Is that fair, Mike?
Yeah, that's very fair.
You've helped a lot of people, and you've told me some stories off-camera that are really amazing to hear how you've helped.
Well, what's cool right now is we're all in tax prep mode, right?
And so the people that paid attention and that got their strategies in place at the end of last year, I'm getting a lot of positive attaboys saying, thank you, why didn't I know about this 10 years ago?
So that's heartwarming.
Absolutely.
You're helping a lot of people keep more of what they earn, and that's a great thing that you do.
In wrapping up the show today, let me give credit to redpillprints.com.
We have DTV Man here dressed up in the garb.
Now, they're not a sponsor, but we like the company.
I mean, we plug them because they create decentralized TV shirts and hoodies and hats and coffee mugs and what have you.
And they accept crypto as payment.
So we like to support businesses that are doing business in crypto.
So that's one thing.
And then I would just encourage folks, just check out our website, decentralized.tv.
Watch all the episodes.
You're going to learn a tremendous amount of information.
Spread the word.
I don't think that URL is banned on X at the moment.
Maybe it will be.
It's probably banned everywhere else, but you can probably share it on X. And lastly, I would say we are about to launch a registration page for our AI language model project.
Great.
I'll be announcing it on brighttown.com or naturalnews.com.
You can sign up for that soon, like in a week or so, and you'll be able to get a free download at the end of March.
And then, Todd, you and I will get to have fun on a show, like running it and asking it questions and seeing what kind of bizarre stuff it comes up with.
I can't wait.
You know what?
I can't wait to load it on my abovephone.com.
They sell their laptops, too.
Oh, yeah.
That's true.
And so I got mine, and I'm embarrassed to say it's still in the box right over there.
I've been kind of waiting for the right reason to be able to unpack it and invest what I think is probably going to be a week of my time.
Try to set that up.
So I'm like, oh, that's where the long language...
It's running Linux.
So I think it's a desktop version of Ubuntu.
So there is a bit of a learning curve on that.
But I gotta tell you, I am so happy I've learned more Linux in the last four months than ever before.
Have you really?
Okay.
Yeah, and Ubuntu and also Python.
Dude, I am...
I'm editing and modifying code.
I'm installing packages with PIP all day long.
I'm running a data center in my home office right now for the AI system, and I'm doing the hardware installs of all the NVIDIA GPUs and everything.
It's wild, man.
I did not think I was going to be doing this, but I'm having a great time.
In between clipping goat nails.
It's a grinder tool for the goat hooves.
You've got to use a grinder.
It's called the hoof boss, by the way.
It's a serious grinder.
Of course it is.
Yeah, you've got to grind those hooves, man.
Especially when the goats get older and they don't grind them down themselves.
And by the way, Rhodey is here.
Hey, Rhodey, you want to say hi?
Hey, buddy.
How you doing, Ro?
Yeah.
Here you go.
Hey, Brody.
Hold on.
Brody.
Yeah, there you go.
Good boy.
How you doing?
Oh, nice.
How you doing?
Yeah.
He's like, it's time to play, Dad.
Hey, Bro, go get your toys.
Go get your toys.
Go get them.
Go get your toys.
The best path to a toy is the straight one.
Okay, bring your toys up.
Where'd he go?
Not there.
No, over here.
Come here.
Over here.
Over here.
Okay, bring your toys up.
Come on.
Get up.
There we go.
You got them.
Look at that.
It's an eight.
Another eight.
Show an eight.
He likes eights for some reason.
He's really into the eight.
Or it's the infinity symbol if you turn his head sideways.
Right, right.
Yeah, I don't watch all of your videos, but I do listen to all of them if I can't watch them.
But I understand, based on today's, that you did a little video footage of him running.
Yeah, you know what?
I'm going to ask the editor to put that in, of me throwing the rings and watching him run.
He's crazy fast.
That's amazing.
Well, Mike, it's been a pleasure to kind of circle back with you after 30 weeks or whatever, 30 shows.
But it's been a wonderful journey, and man, we're just getting started, I believe.
Much more yet to come on Decentralized TV, and one day we'll be talking about the 100th episode, you know?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Right.
I know.
Think about how much is going to change between now and then, right?
Oh, I know.
I know.
Yeah, we'll be talking about how the dollar collapsed and what happened next.
Right.
I'll be broadcasting from the Republic of Texas, you know.
Yes.
You'll be in the nation of Florida, you know.
Yeah, where I'll be, you know, governor and the medium of exchange will be up at cash.
You know.
You got to be like President DeSantis and you'll be the state treasurer or something.
There we go.
Yes.
I like it.
I like it.
All right.
Well, this is fun, Todd.
Thank you for taking the time today.
We appreciate you.
We had a great conversation.
Yes, thank you, Mike.
And thank you to your producers, your team.
They are just awesome and really appreciate everything that they do, from reaching out to the guests, to organizing the schedule, to setting it up and putting up with, sometimes like today, tech issues from my side.
A few glitches.
It's just par for the course.
Don't worry about it.
All good.
Awesome.
All right.
Thank you, Todd.
Have a great day.
Okay.
Thanks, Mike.
Cheers.
All right.
And thank you for watching.
Of course, this is decentralized.tv.
That's the website where you can find all our other episodes.
And it's all hosted on brighteon.com.
And you do want to watch for brighteon.ai.
Just a little teaser there about what's coming soon, brighteon.ai.
In the meantime, just check out your favorite shows and guests on brighteon.com.
And thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
Take care, everybody.
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